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Named after one of the founding members of NHSIE, Jack Hill was a war veteran, successful businessman, and the first African American President of the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce. Dedicated to making homeownership more achievable for people of color in the Inland Empire community, he co-founded NHSIE more than 40 years ago. Through NHSIE’s new Jack Hill Initiative, NHSIE will specifically promote homeownership and wealth building among African American residents in the Inland Empire.

Over the next several years, NHSIE will engage in targeted outreach to those neighborhood/census tracts in the Inland Empire that have been hardest hit by COVID. NHSIE will focus outreach and community engagement activities on these neighborhoods to increase knowledge of and access to financial skill-building training, rental assistance, rental and eviction counseling, homeownership readiness, foreclosure prevention counseling, ADU development training and assistance, and other community-related recovery programs.

Through NHSIE’s Brick by Brick program, NHSIE will continue the foundational work that NHSIE has undertaken since its founding in 1981 to help Inland Empire residents gain financial knowledge and resilience and advance toward sustainable homeownership through a combination of homebuyer education and financial capabilities trainings, individualized counseling, down-payment assistance, and realty and lending support.

Many people are in a constant state of financial vulnerability, spending more than they earn, not having savings or a rainy day fund, relying on payday loans, racking up exorbitant credit card debt, and struggling to make ends meet. NHSIE wants to reverse this tide of financial vulnerability by reaching out to young people on the brink of adulthood and arming them with financial knowledge and resources that put them on a path to stability, financial resilience, and homeownership.

Project GROW (Generating Real Opportunities for Wealth): Recognizing that home prices in the Inland Empire are skyrocketing and that we need to identify more affordable housing options for LMI families, NHSIE has been working on an initiative to promote development of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) to serve as affordable rental and for sale housing across the Inland Empire. Project Grow is the next phase in the evolution of this initiative, as the agency reaches out to churches and faith-based groups with excess land, Inland Empire property owners, and Polanco mobile home park owners (owned and operated by farm workers) to explore opportunities for ADU development and provide training and technical assistance to support the building of ADUs.